So this is what the rest of the spring and summer is going to look like, in case you were wondering.
During a Wednesday interview on Fox News Radio, Ben Carson, who will likely help Donald Trump choose a running mate, proposed making Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) Trump's attorney general and then nominating him to sit on the Supreme Court.
There's no part of that sentence that isn't impressive for its lunacy. Even the word "Wednesday" is rendered a bit suspicious, when you pair it with names and ideas like that.
"I think he would be terrific on the Supreme Court, or I think he would be a terrific attorney general. Or he could be both," Carson said when asked if Cruz would make for a good Supreme Court pick. "He could be attorney general first, you know, go ahead and prosecute Hillary, and then go on the Supreme Court."
Prosecute Hillary for what? Eh, who cares! So long as he prosecutes her it's all good. (Just for the record, I'll point out once again here that we did not prosecute officials in the last Republican administration who led a concerted effort to torture prisoners of war, but Republicans are eagerly probing whether or not an official receiving work mails at a private email address should be tossed in the slammer. Congress did also not give too many damns about the numerous attacks on American compounds overseas, during the last Republican administration. Again, just for the record.)
This isn't the first time someone has floated the idea of crackerjack law-type guy Ted Cruz becoming the new Scalia of the Supreme Court—though among his fellow senators, I think the main appeal of the idea is just moving him out of the Senate and making him somebody else's problem. No doubt the man considered to be the devil himself by some of his current colleagues would shine when locked in a small room with eight other people for the remainder of his and their careers.
Then there's the notion of whether Donald Trump would nominate the person that Donald Trump publicly considers to be compulsively dishonest and the biggest liar in the race to be one of the nine people that decide the intent and details of all our nation's laws. This is Donald Trump we're talking about, so I'm going to say yes.